California State University, Sacramento
Department of History
College of Arts and Letters
Spring 2000
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Hours: | MW: 2-2:50; Tuesday: 3-4 |
| E-mail Address: | broberts@saclink.csus.edu |
| Office Telephone: | (916) 278-5630 |
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| Mailing Address: | CSU, Sacramento |
| 6000 J Street | |
| Sacramento, CA 95819-6059 | |
"Stay in school. Avoid the workplace."
- The Hat Man
Brian Roberts, Ph.D. Rutgers, 1995, NEH Fellow 1998; Woodrow Wilson / Charlotte Newcombe Fellow, 1994.
American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle Class Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
The Minstrel Perception: Popular Music and American Identity, 1800-1920, in- progress book, currently under contract with University of North Carolina Press.
"Popular Music," and "The California Gold Rush and American Boyhood," in Clement and Renier, eds., Boyhood in America (Denver, 2001).
"The Greatest and Most Perverted Paradise: The Forty Niners in Latin America," in Ken Owens, ed., The California Gold Rush: A Sesquicentennial Reexamination (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000)
Research Projects/Interests
Fall 2000: Research on the effects of minstrelsy on perceptions of slavery and free African Americans; submission of article, "’The Devil Has Been In Possession of the Good Tunes Long Enough’: Popular Music and Social Reform in the Antebellum America," to Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.
Spring 2001: completion of chapter draft: "The Minstrel Perception: The Framing of African Americans through the Imagery of Popular Music, 1830-1870."
Fall 2000: Research at CSUS and the CSL on Native American music and Pan-Indianism; completion of chapter drafts, "Turning Minstrelsy Around: African American Uses of Blackface Imagery in the Creation of Black Nationalism," and "Putting-On the Great Father: Native Americans, Redface Minstrelsy, and the Rise of a Pan-Indian Movement, 1880-1930.".
I was born in a mill. This one.
